AAAHH! Only a month left!

It hit me hard today that I have only just about five weeks left for my MCATs! I've been squandering time for the past two weeks or so, always putting the work off for 'tomorrow'.

Now, it's laughing in my face! Six course books, a million facts to memorize, formulae, life-cycles... that's two years of school work! What was I thinking?

But then again, it's always been like this with me... put it off till it's almost too late, then dive into it with a bag full of tension and try to emerge successful. Alhamdolillah, Allah always tugs my boat away from stormy water into sunshine and towards sandy shores! Thus, people find it hard to believe I have a bad, bad, bad 'procrastination' habit!

Anyway, I've assessed the damage - start studying after sunrise, all day when my sisters are at school... then, a nap after lunch - and back to the books untill evening. Biology gets the priority, then Physics and Chemistry.

Please, please, please pray that I am successful in my endeavors and please also pray for both my cousins, Anum and Saima, who're also stuck in the same big mess!

One big hurdle also left is my exam result for this last academic year... it is to be announced out on the 15th of September.....!! In our exam system, the Intermediate level comprises of two years, with annual exams at the end of each year. In my first year, I got 470 out of 550 (85%)and they'll be issuing the aggregate this year... ie. out of 1100 marks... I just hope I don't drop this year. Getting an overall 85% would really strengthen my chances... ooh, this merit system is really freaky.

Anyway, big day tomorrow, got to sleep!

Allah Hafiz!


- This is the place I wish to get admission into: www.kmdc.edu.pk (Karachi Medical and Dental College)

Another bunch o' Idiosyncracies!

Salam alaikum!

I have tried several times to write something about my own routines but somehow, even to me, it just sounds too boring. I would have to get round to that soon but I seem to put if off everyday. Maybe one day I'll wake up and "ping!" - the ability to write about myself will drop down into my brain from heaven and I'll create a new post immediately. Right now you'll have to make do with the regular stuff.

My brain these days is - very crazily - occupied with two main thoughts - or rather three.

-1- Study regularly for the MCATs (Medical College Admission Tests) so that I can get into KMDC (Karachi Medical and Dental College) to do BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery) and become a DENTIST ( D - E -N ... oops, sorry!) InshAllah!

-2- Think up a creative but simple costume for my cousin's second birthday party. (Yes, everbody under twenty is supposed to come in a costume - maybe that's because it's the first themed party in the history of my family).

-3- BAKE MY COUSIN'S BIRTHDAY CAKE!


You can see to which thing I have been giving most priority.

I say it's a 101% true fact that most girls will really think first of their appearance, jewellery, make-up, clothes, cooking, kids, stitching, singing, etc. etc. than anything else - yes, there are other things too! It's in the nature of a female and you can't snub her for that. Nothing wrong with having brains and beauty at the same time - *cough*Legally Blonde 2*cough*!

So, to me baking my cousin's birthday cake is very important right now. I'm a little weird in that way - I love cooking, I just love it, and to any cook or wannabe-cook, appreciation from a hungry audience is not only a 'reward' but a motivational factor to strive for more.

Last year, when I baked the cake for Anushey's (my cute little cousin, chewing on a straw in that pic) first birthday, I attempted to make Barney - that cute ... *cough*ugly*cough*... dinosaur kids seem to love so much - why!? Anyway, it turned out to be quite a fiasco with all that food colouring (purple and green!). It was much appreciated but I only thanked the multi-coloured sprinkles which, showered over the huge cake, covered up most errors in icing.

This year however, inshAllah, the design is of my own choice - unlike last year - and a lot of pre-planning is underway. The design was finalized yesterday, colour schemes will be done in the course of this week, recipes reviewed, details conformed and the cake should materialize quite well, inshAllah, on Monday, the 5th of September. In any case, I'll put up a pic.

About the costume - ah, well, because of the cake duty, I'll keep my attire as simple as possible - all I need is my black gown, a wizard's hat, a magic wand and I'm ready!! HP fanship, haha!

Okay, that's enough eccentric behavior for now! Sigh... watching the new Willy Wonka can hit your head pretty hard with "weirdo-ness"...

Going off to recover. Allah Hafiz!

Shockwaves, trills and heart-melting moments! She's done it like never before!

Right, first things first.

I'm back in Karachi, with all the mental upheavels and tantrums I had to endure alongside. I returned on Tuesday morning and two days following that, I was shrouded in gloom, despair and distress - not really because of my return, but because I FINALLY got to read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This itself was not the cause of gloom - but the general story and the events can get you pretty down. I don't know how far the story is true that Tom Cruise had to take an Anti-Depressant after reading HBP! :P

What can I say about the book?! It is absolutely world class and Rowling's out-done herself totally this time! As a female reader, like many others from my gender, I was gagging at "Won-Won" scenes but on the other hand, really appreciating what Harry has had to endure and what he will have to face as the story continues. What he has had to go through is terrible, what he has to forgo, the sacrifices he is now being asked to make... they've ripped out all innocence from his soul - and left a determined man to stand and face upto the dark times ahead.

Every thought and action in this book was carefully planned and worded by Rowling and the darkest of scenes were nerve-wrecking. The plot was tightly woven, with old questions being answered while giving the book something new to carry on. What's more, we finally discover how to get rid of Voldemort - and we also discover that Harry must do it alone. Muggles, or non-Harry Potter readers, will take it to be the average 'Hero' story. Haha... as if!

A new horizon of possiblities has cropped up with this latest book, new theories... and this time, these theories can be debated for years on end due to the complex nature of this installment. And, resist as I cannot, I have to mention here, to any HP fan that prob'ly one of the best part of the book was the new relationship between Harry Potter and Ron's sister, Ginny Weasley. I say this because Harry himself believes her to be his "greatest source of comfort" and "something that was making him happier than anything esle". And also, Rowling herself points out that Ginny is the only person who is Harry's "equal" in the current situation.

Every HP fan is currently reeling from the intensity of the Half-Blood Prince and when all these inital tremors subside, serious debates will take place, theories presented or crossed out, interviews bombarded on Rowling... and largscale begging for the next and last book.

I have only one word to say. If you're still a Muggle, now is the best time to catch up on the Potter series and be part of a truly magical experience!

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